fantastic result for the league, hopefully future years ahead will become a lot easier for other airtricity league teams to make it through to the group stages. Hope Shams get a great draw at noon today, some big games ahead would be fantastic !!
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fantastic result for the league, hopefully future years ahead will become a lot easier for other airtricity league teams to make it through to the group stages. Hope Shams get a great draw at noon today, some big games ahead would be fantastic !!
I don't think it's possible to quantify quite what a momentous achievement this is. I'm over the moon for the Rovers supporters who dragged the club back from the brink and made it possible to achieve this. It's an occasion to savour for everyone who witnessed all the near misses and put up with the scorn from the naysayers, when they knew in their hearts the league was on the verge of making this breakthrough. Shels and Derry set the tone with some great performances, Drogheda came so close in Kiev, I was in the RDS when Pat's gave Hertha a massive fright, was in Dalymount when Bohs were minutes from putting Salzburg out and now this is the payoff for all the disappointment and near misses.
The players will go into the history books and the performance will be forever etched in our minds. Now all Irish teams should be inspired to shake off the inferiority complex and realise the group stages are attainable and in a sustainable manner too. I said after the last game that the inferiority complex seemed to be slowly slipping away but I really thought this season was a step too far, the quality of the goal last week was superb and then it was somehow surpassed this week, surely there couldn't be a better advertisement for the league of Ireland as a collective. Onwards and upwards.
Probably preparing strike notice as we speak.Quote:
Originally Posted by sullanefc
Where is Skstu?
Canada?Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
I can only imagine what it must feel like to be a Shamrock Rovers fan today, or even a LOI fan. There will be some serious sore legs and even sorer heads coming off that plane today and I hope they saviour the moment and get a good welcome home party when they get back.
Ive enjoyed my 10 years or so following LOI clubs in Europe through mainly streams - since I left Dublin - and although teams were getting close each year, I actually thought that the pedigree and amount of teams that were increasing at a level faster than Irish sides I wasn't really sure the breakthrough would come. But it has and i really do hope that this can be the push that Irish soccer people need to get them through the turnstiles/merchandise/whatever. For shams as a club hopefully the money is spent wisely and used rather as an investment than an immediate spend, an investment to make more money.
I think a LOI club needed that luck, and after all the years of being luckless in Europe it finally came for Rovers. Again, Congratulations one and all and I hope the feeling of goodwill from those "on the outside" stays for a long time yet.
Me personally I never wake up early or before 8(woke up an hour early through excitement) as I'm wrecked but today I woke up with a great feeling, and more than anything a feeling of hope, hope for the future and what it might mean for Irish football as a whole. I've spent the morning reading here (a few times over) and trawling any papers I can find, I hope I can find some more.
Thats not what i meant ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sam_Heggy
Just woke up there and for a moment forgot what happened. Still can't believe it.
Jees O'neill was changing his clothes a lot on the sideline......
http://photos.independent.ie/gallery.../0edYa4peJle8F
If O'Donnell had missed it should have been retaken anyway:
http://photos.independent.ie/gallery.../03uC4hV1sA8bm
And his face. That first one is magilton
I know, I was being sarcastic.
I think there was another one where they got dennehy wrong as well.
Jees murray is a lump his arm is huge and sives has an awful big nose. :D
The partizan security fella clapping sullivans goal is funny too.
Draw live on Eurosport now
Live on UEFA.com too. There's a lot of teams to be drawn but a proper thrill an Irish team are among them.
Yer one is cracking!
Love it if they get Lokomotiv Moscow. I know the club were impressed with Rovers last night and Loko would lose in Dublin. Plus I've season freebies :-)
Christ, they drag this out don't they?
Celtic have lodged an appeal?
Ya Sion were playing supposedly illegible players that they had just signed. Something about 2 transfers or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels
I didn't really give much there did i? But platini and Uefa general secretary seem to be siding with(tom) celic thus far.
Would it be a down the dress or up the dress job?Quote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels
Yeah, aparrently Sion fielded in ineligible player.
Uefa says Swiss club FC Sion faces being kicked out of the Europa League for fielding ineligible players when it beat Scotland's Celtic in the playoff round.
Uefa says Celtic has lodged official protests that Sion breached a one-year FIFA transfer ban, which was originally imposed in 2008 but took effect in January.
Uefa President Michel Platini says Sion fielded its offseason signings "in clear violation of the ban."
Sion is included in today's group stage draw but Celtic could be reinstated.
Uefa general secretary Gianni Infantino says its disciplinary committee will rule on Celtic's protest before the first match on Sept. 15.
First, Uefa is waiting for a Swiss civil court ruling on Sion's case.
What's the story with drawing each group's letter? Why can't the first team drawn be in group A and so on?
Cos they need to drag it out as long as physically possibleQuote:
Originally Posted by osarusan
For anyone watching on UEFA, does the commentator evoke a memory of standing in a bookies listening to the horses going to post or dogs into a box?
Oh ffs they're going to draw letters to decide groups for every team. Wake me up in 45 minutes.
Ask b2bw. I would be a gentleman and let her decide.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kingdom
Just what I was thinking!Quote:
Originally Posted by Spudulika
Presume shams were the lowest seeded team in the draw?
Laudible senitment - but who would pay the wages required?Quote:
Originally Posted by elroy
UEFA now.
Im liking Group K
Twente, Fulham
Thats a tough group though, wouldn't it be good if they got a glamour tie but also some reasonable teams who they could possibly beat or draw to get extra money and improve their co-efficient too.
Glamour teams are probably Spurs
PSV
Atletico
Lazio
But they are paired with Rubin
H Tel Aviv
Udinese
Sporting lisbon
respectively....................each of those pairings are very tough
I think playing in the Group stages at home with the shackles off so to speak might see a different type of shams.
L - without a doubt so far. After that E,G,H or K.
Avoid A.
What chance in future years an LOI ambassador could get involved in these draws? Probably end up with John Delaney picking himself though.
Argh just draw the teams...
This is the worst kind of tv.
Group E?? Kiev and Besiktas??!Not sure i share your sentiment thereQuote:
Originally Posted by Kingdom
Ah just enjoy it, its not like we're here often :)Quote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels